Despite a wonderful beginning place, the German ski racer Lena Dürr has Winter Olympics missed a sensational medal within the big slalom. The Munich lady slipped from second place to ninth place in Cortina d’Ampezzo after the primary run. In the celebrated Olympic victory of the Italian Federica Brignone, Dürr was 0.19 seconds wanting silver. Emma Aicher because the second German starter – already embellished with silver within the downhill and the workforce mixture – got here nineteenth.

With her second gold of those Winter Games after profitable the Super-G, Brignone grew to become a star amongst ski racers within the Dolomites. She relegated Sara Hector from Sweden and Thea Louise Stjernesund from Norway to silver. The 35-year-old Brignone suffered a really critical tibia and fibula harm lower than a 12 months in the past and was frightened about her OIympia begin for a very long time.

After 4 competitions in Cortina, the slalom takes place on Wednesday. Then Dürr nonetheless has an opportunity of profitable valuable metallic in her particular self-discipline. Similar to the large slalom 4 years in the past in Beijing, she was very near a medal because the chief after the primary slalom run, however then slipped again to fourth place. Particularly bitter: At that point she was additionally 0.19 seconds wanting gold.

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